Seems all pretty fucking simple to me. Don't fucking mace a 9 year old. I don't give two fucks if their parents are Charles Manson and Lizzie Borden. They could be 250 lb future linebackers in the nfl, and that still wouldn't excuse macing a goddamn child in the face. Somehow the 9 year old gets it better than so many fucking adults. And that is absolutely pathetic tbqh. Yes, she's acting like a child. Maybe because she is a child.
"Tradition" is just a word people use to make themselves feel better about being an asshole.